Printing-press.



C. WHITE.

PRINTING PRESS.

APPLICATION FILED IIIY I, IUIJ. 1.150,4?0.

Patenfm Aw): IT, ISII 3 2 SHEEISHSIIEEI 2.

`35 the two parts or sub-units of each double ink distributing rollers ll which' carry the to sheet and without necessitating the lifting ers and cylinders in the upper and lower i an srarns or CURTIS WBIIITE, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

PRINTING-Pense.

A'. Specification of Letters Patent. Patent-@qll ug, 1U?, 1292i 5I, Application led May 1, 1914. Serial No. $35,583.

To all f'o0/wm it may concern: to the next until the desired combination of Be it known that l, CURTIS WHITE, a citicolors is obtained. Moreover, because of the zen of the United States, residing at Invertical arrangement of the two parts of dianapolis, in the county of Marion and each unit, the umts'require less floor space. 60 State of indiana, have invented a new and urthermore, since the paper comes up veruseful Printing-Press, of which the follow` tically from the rolls the changing from one Ying-is a specification. .roll to another when the paper on the iirst It is the object of my invention to prois used up can be more easily accomplished, vide a perfecting printing press which can and can, be done even Without stopping the 65 be installed in! any number of units; in press. s

which the number of units can be increased The accompanying drawing illustrates my or decreased as desired or needed; in which invention. V the parts are so arranged that the number Figure 1 is a diagrammatic view showing of men required to operate the press is rethe general arrangement of the press, the 70 duced; in which every part of the press is framework being omitted for the sake of rendered more easily accessible; by which clearness; Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional less licor space is required; in which the view through the press, shown in Fig. l, units of the press can be more easily assothe press proper beingan. elevation; and ciated in various ways; in which the various F ig. 3 is a partial sectional view on the line 75 cylinders and other parts are within reach 3`3 of Fig. 2, showing somedetails which from the floor or deck and can be set withcannot be brought out in Fig. l on account out climbing; in which the' stereotype plates of the small scale, of they latter. can be put on and taken off without lifting The press which I have illustrated in the out the rollers; in which the tympans on the drawing consists of six units, A., B, C, l), 80 impression cylinders can be changed lfrom E, and F, each of which units comprises an the oor ordinarily without necessitating upper part or sub-unit U and a lower part breaking of the sheets; in which the rolls can or subunit L, the upper part being substanbe changed without stopping the press; by tially over the lower part. There may be whichY the number of angle bars required to any desired number of driving motors, each 85 be used is reduced to a minimum; and in motor driving one or more units; for sirni which any combination of colors can be plicity the motors are not shown. Each of printed and easy changes can be made fromV these sub-units is forrprinting on one side black to color combinations and vice versa. of the sheet of paper being printed, and

In carryi g out my invention, I arrange comprises an ink fountain 10 and various 90 press or unit substantially one above the ink from thevfountain to a stereotype or other, and mount the rolls of paper below plate l2 and spread it evenly thereon, and a this double A,press orv unit so that the paper /tympan or impression cylinder 13 between is fed upward fromthe rolls to the lower which and the plate cylinder the sheet of 4o part of the unit and then tothe upper part paper passes and is printed as it passes. y of the unit for simple black printing on the Different ink fountains may be used for -two sides of the paper. By vreason of the black and color printing, if desired, to avoid vertical arrangement of the two parts of the necessity of cleaning the fountains when y ,each unit, this does not cause the inclosing a change in color is made. Various pipe '100.

,of any of the stereotype or impression cyland compensating rollers 1l and angle bars inders in loops of the sheet being printed, 15 are provided, for guiding the sheet of so that stereotype plates can be removed paper in the desired path, the location of y and the tympans on the impression cylinthese being variable to a considerable exders can be replaced without breaking the tent. The arrangements of the various rollof any of the rollers from their place in the parts of each unit are substantially'the. repress. By reason of this same arrangement, verse, the impression cylinders being above color combinations can be obtained by runand slightly to the left (as seen in Fig. l) ning the paper from the rolls below the of the stereotype cylinders in the lower part 1m units through the' lower part of one of the and below and slightly to the right of such i -units and then horizontally from one unit: vroller in' the upperpart. A. cross gangway -i rolls 26 just below bar 16 is provided is conveniently provided. at one end with an elevator for lowering the rolls of paper 26 from. the main floor level 27 to the level of the door 28 of the subway 2i. A truck 30 is shown in Fig. 1 yin position on the elevater Extending downward into the subway from the iioor frame 21 are hangers for supporting a number of the paper such floor frame, provision preferably being made for two rolls under each unit, as shown in Fig. 1. rll`here are two hangers 31 for each end of each roll, these two hangers supporting across which forms a bearing for one end of the shaft of the roll supported by such hangers, said cross bar 32 conveniently being pivoted to one of the hangers 31 and cooperating with a notch 34 in a horizontal flange on the other of the same pair of ers, as is clear from Fig. 3. 1n order to li t the roll-of paper from the truck to the cross bars 32, said cross bars are dropped,

shown for the roll being lifted in Fig. 3,'

and hooks 35 carried'by lifting chains 36 are placed on the ends of the shaft 33 of the roll 2G to be lifted, the upper ends of the chains 36 being connected to a cross shaft 37 operable in some convenient manner for lifting the roll, there being as many of these cross shafts as there are roll positions, twelve in the press illustrated. Conveniently, these cross shafts 37 are connected by bevel gearing 38 and clutches 39 to one or more shafts Ll() extending along thevsubway 24, such shaft or shafts 40 being driven through suitable reducing gearing from a motor 41. By this means any of the shafts 3T can be drivenfrom the motor 11 to lift a fresh roll of paper to any roll position.

1n 'order to put tension on the'paper as it is being printed, the shaft 33 of each roll is preferably provided with a friction pulley will, which cooperate brake shoes 43 on levers 14. said levers being movable toward and from each other to vary the pressure of the brake' shoes on the friction pulley, as by means of a right and left hand'screw 45 having an operating handle or wheel 6 above the main floor level 2T. The lower of each ai." of levers Jr'lmay be disconnected and allowed to drop, as illustrated in the one above the ear 30 in Fig. 3, to facilitate putting the roll 2G in place or removing the empty shaft 33. lt is also sometimes necesideario sary to shift the paper rolls 26 endwise, to make the paper from them engage the cylinders so as to make the proper side margins. This may be done by mounting the levers 44 on a slide L1T, which is connected by a rack and pinion 48 to an operating shaft 4:9 hav-v ing its operating handle or wheel 50 also above the floor level 27. By turning the handle 50 the slide t7 may be moved paral lel to theaxis of the roll, carrying the roll with it by reason of the groove provided in the friction pulley 42.

1n operation, the paper may be supplied from either of the two associated supply rolls 26 to the lowerpart L of any press unit. "Sup marked 26 'over suitable ones of the pipe rollers 14 so that it passes 'from the left between the plate cylinder 12 and the impression cylinder 13 of the lower part of the unit B, being printed in black, say, on

the side toward the cylinder 12, and that the paper then passes on freely between the two impression cylinders 13 of the lower Iand upper parts of the unit B to the left hand side of the impression cylinder 13 of the upper part U andfthence from the left between such upper impression cylinder' 13 ,and its coperating plate cylinder 12 to receive the printing on the other side of the paper, say

also in black, passing thence over the pipe rollers 14, and angle bars 15 if necessary, to

one of the folders 50, of which there may he any desired number, suitably located as de sired, one being shown at each end of the press. It will be noted that the plate cylin-v der 12 of lthe lower art L` and the impression cylinder 13 of t 16 between the rollers AB and C, and that the other cylinders 12 and 13 of such unit are accessible from the cross gangway 16 between the units-A andV B, without necessitating any breaking of the sheet being printed, so that stereotype plates .may be removed or replaced and make-ready may be placed on the impression rollers when hard or semi-hard packing is used as desired and with comparative ease. on the roll 26 beginning of the paper on the adjacent roll 26 for the same unit is run up over the pipe l -rollers 14 as illustrated in Fig. 1, and paste paper lefton the old roll, 'the pasted end ose it is supplied from the roll y e upper part U of the 4 unit B are accessible from'the cross gangway.

In case the paperis approaching its end\the4 ica y made.

nieder@ the press may b'e used as two sextuplel presses; as an octuple press and a quadruple press; as three quadruple presses, in which latter case the ltwo sid of each4 of four units work on separate papers andcor-\ respondingsides of each of theour units coperate for a ,singlepapen the two sides of these four units coperating with different holders.

When colors are to be printed, various combinations of the different units can be passes in the same manner; thence it passes backward between the upper and lower 'arts-'of the several units around the 'impression roller 13 of the upper part U of r'the unit C, passing from left to rightV between the rolls 12 and 13, and from thence to the upper parts of the units D, E, and F in succession, through which it passes in the same manner; thence it may pass over the proper pipe rollers 14, and angle bars 15 if necessary, to the same folder and counter 50 to which the printed paper from the unit B is supplied, the paper from the two rolls being cut and folded together. In this color combination scheme, the unit C may supply yellow ink, the unit D red ink, the unit E'blue ink, and unit F black ink, which is the usual combination used in uptodate Anewspapers for their colored supplements.

Many other color` combinations can be used', by very simple and obvious arrangements of 'the units and sub-units. For instance, by.using two units together as a quadruple press to print a sheet with black on one side and black and two colors on the other, the sheet may be supplied to the lower sub-unit of one of the units, say B, to print black on one side of the sheet, and passedi thence to the lower sub-unit ofthe second unit, say A, but with this sub-unit operatingin the reverse direction from normal, and passin thence through the two upper sub-units o thetwo units and B in succession, as illustrated indotted lines in Fig. l

One of these is illustrated in Fig." l, the paper from the roll 26 passing upv (ira should be spaced by 90 instead of 450, so that the headings on the two sides of the roller may register with those of the other sub-units. This also necessitates that the sub-unit operating in the reverse direction (sub-unit L of unit A) have other ink distributing rollers for the most desirable distribution of ink during this backward rotation of the parts. o

I claim as my invention:

1. A printing press comprising a series of perfecting units arranged in a line, the Several units each having. plate and im- Eression cylinders transverse to such line, a subway extending longitudinally beneath said series of units, means for supporting a roll of paper crosswise in said subway below each of said units, a cross shaft extencing across said subway for each of said rollsupporting means, a motor-driven longitudinal shaft extending along said subway and connectible vto any of said cross shafts, and lifting means associated with each of said cross shafts for lifting a roll of paper to the position in which it is to be supported in said subway.

2. A printing press vcomprising a series of perfecting units arranged in a line, the several units each-having plate and impression cylinders transverse to such line, a subway extending longitudinally beneath said series of units, means for supporting a roll of lpaper crosswise in said subway below each of said units, a cross shaft extending across said subway for each of said rollsupporting means, means for operating any desired one of said cross shafts, and lifting means associatedI with each of said cross shafts for lifting a roll of/ paper to the positionin which it is to be supported in said subway. 1

;3. A printing press comprising a plurality of press units,each of which extends transversely of the whole press, a subway extending longitudinally beneath the press and under said units, means for supporting one or more rolls of paper in said subway below each unitand sufiiciently above the subway floor to allow other rolls to pass y,beneath such supported rolls.-

1' 4. A printing press comprising a plurality of units, a suiway extendin longitudinally beneath sai nuits, means for supporting one ormore rollsf of paper in said subway 'below' each of said units, means associated with each of said supporting means for raising and lowering a roll of paper from the subway floor to such supporting means, a source of power, and means for connecting such source of power to any of such raising and lowering means.

5. The combination of a perfecting printing press and means located beneath said press for supporting a plurality of rolls of paper close to each other, and separate pipe rollers close to each other beneath said.

press for receiving paper. from the different rolls so that paper fed upward from any roll may be supplied to the press and the paper from one roll may be gotten in readiness for starting prior to th'e discontinuance of supply from another roll.

6. In combination, a printing press, a subway extending beneath said printing press, means for supporting a plurality of rolls of paper in the upper part of said subway with their axes transverse thereto, a eross shaft extending across Said subway for each of said roll-supporting xneans, a motor-driven longitudinal shaft extending along said subway and having a separable driving connection with each of said cross maaar@ hand at indianapolis, indiana. this twentyi ninth day-ot' April, A. D. one thousand nine hundred and fourteen.

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